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Well Im one year older now whoopdie doo 22. I kinda found birthdays pointless now because anything I want I can just buy myself thanks to poker. I guess Ive outgrown the Happy Birthday song with the cake/candles etc. Which leaves the last and only good part, an excuse to just hang out. So far I got dinner, movie, then playing drunken 'Taboo' lol. Some things to do that are hip nowadays? I guess I have been playing poker too long that Im living under a rock. Is going to the arcade acceptable at my age? lol


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The middle of October was not a very good time for me, a combination of poor play/playing while tired/tilt led to a 12 buy-in 'downswing'. Although downswing is definately not the right word since this was definately the result of terrible play and tilt... but w.e.. Anyways since then I have managed to rally quite well and have been able get back the mental stabilty that I have had over the past few months, (thanks eightfold path to enlightenment) This week I was able to reach a small milestone in my short heads up career that I am very proud of. These are my results from Aug 1 - Today, all hu 100nl (wish my comp handn't crashed and I had a graph right from july when I began heads up.)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/4ded6.Aug-Today.png

Graph since Oct 21 (rally after downswing)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/88335.Rally.png


Apologizes for the self indulgent brag post, but sometimes a person forgets to be thankful for what they have unless you take a step back. I am so proud of myself for the amount of work and dedication I have put in to get me this far. I better wrap this up before it turns into a novel.

Gl on the tables in November everyone!!!


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WTF is everyones problem on LP with hellmuth? Sure hes an asshole. But so are half the people on these boards. The guys a fucking legend. 13 Bracelets ? He is the best no limit player up to this point. Why is everyone talking shit about me reading his book?


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As many of you know, I've been doing daily starcraft analysis. Tune in at 7pm PST tonight if you're interested

www.livestream.com/striderdoom

if you wanna tune into some past episodes, check out mah thread:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=104154

wheeehooo!!!


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edit: taken care of


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So after doing some searching and research I'm still having trouble making sense of my graphs. Can anyone tell me if this looks like I'm on the right track?

I 6 table 10NL.

EV Graph:
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8053/fakeawakeevgraph.png

SD/NSD Graph:
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/7459/fakeawakesdnsdgraph.png

I understand what the lines on the second graph mean. I don't know if it's good or not. I mainly don't understand if my EV graph is good though.

Any feedback is appreciated.


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For about the last 5-16 months I had been trying to come to grips with the fact that I just will never be as good as I thought I was capable of. I had thought for a long time that I would one day be good enough to sit in the 25/50 games and be feared by most at the table. After suffering from losing a number of very long losing streaks and struggling to maintain a bankroll big enough to play 1/2 I was finally starting to accept the fact that I wasn't good enough to ever beat any higher than 1/2 or 2/4 and I'd be resigned there for the rest of my poker career. This was very depressing for me to have to accept, it almost made the whole point of continuing to play fruitless. It also destroyed my confidence in my own abilities in other aspects of life. I mean, if I couldn't do well in this one thing I had been working so hard at for 3 years--I must just not be very smart and not able to succeed in other fields either.

I've been getting coaching from Tommy Angelo, 2 hours a day twice a month, what I thought might be my last chance to restore my hope and my belief in myself. He has definitely done a lot for me, and has helped me to understand a lot of things about life and about poker. The biggest one would be, I suppose, that it doesn't really matter how far I can go or what I've done in the past. I began meditating and doing yoga at his behest, and in general I felt better about myself and felt more at ease with my situation and the world. I was at the point where I was spending an hour every day when I woke up doing nothing but focusing on my breathing while meditating and doing yoga. I'm not at that point anymore, but the things he taught me are lessons I'll definitely keep with me the rest of my life. For that I'm thankful.

Tommy doesn't do much strategy coaching, so I also hired a new betting strategy coach, D_zoo. He is a really excellent coach and I would recommend him to anyone. He has the experience of playing against the best players, and he has the experience of playing for very high stakes. There are few people I've ever received coaching from that have explained certain things to me about the game that I hadn't actually thought of before. I pride myself on being able to think about every conclusion one might be able to come to, or any possible way one might be able to think about the game. And some of the stuff he has shown me are things I just had never really considered, it's been very interesting and very insightful.

Anyways, the point is, I really feel re-generized--like those previous dreams are no longer pipe dreams--that it still can happen. Lately I've been watching a lot of youtube interviews with top poker players. One I recall very well was an interview with Phil Ivey. He said that when he was learning the game, he played 14 hours a day every day for something like 6 years (maybe it was more, I don't remember the exact amount of years). But if I matched the time that I've put into the game compared to him, I've really only put in like 1500 hours total if that (and that's just when he was coming up, not counting all the time he's played since he's been owning). I wasn't lucky enough to play poker in the pre-UIGEA days like many of the top, super rich LP pros. I'm not using it as an excuse for why I'm not better, I'm just using it to justify the fact that I haven't been around long enough and haven't put in enough time to have that kind of success. This only means one thing, I have to keep working, and I have to keep working hard.

If I hadn't purchased that 911 I would be so much further ahead now than I am. I've basically been in financial trouble almost since the day I bought it, constantly needing to cash out and not able to build my roll above 1/2. I definitely won't be making the same mistake this time...This time being the first time since then that I have a decent sample of hands where I'm beating 2/4 for a solid winrate. I definitely won't be cashing out much and am going to be doing everything I can to get myself integrated into the 3/6 games then make that jump to 5/10. My goal is to have taken at least one shot at 5/10 w/ 50k BR by February 2010.

Couple things on the side, I made a series of guest videos for Cardrunners in attempts to get some kind of attention from the site and hopefully get a deal to do coaching, but that's seeming less and less likely since the last time Taylor responded to me was about a month and a half ago. Because I wanted to continue doing coaching and did want to make more videos, I connected with a small training website called grinderschool.com. It's a site that focuses on micro stakes mostly--but that's fine with me because I doubt I could coach any higher than 1/2nl at this point in my career. I've made a couple videos for them, a 50nl and 100nl, then a bunch of leakfinders and a coaching series. If you are interested in receiving coaching I have room for a few more guys, you can find my info on this site:

http://www.grinderschool.com/grinders...poker-strategy-private-coaching.shtml

I like the idea of helping other people and definitely want coaching to continue to be a part of my poker career. There isn't a whole ton of redeeming value to playing poker, but in coaching, at least you get the satisfaction of helping someone else improve their game, which is nice.

So here's the results that inspired this post and the reason I think I need to continue to push on:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/d9763.2 4.jpg


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I am not posting graphs any more as it is -ev.
I have watched 4 episodes on Real life NL Grinder and re watched 3 episodes of Coaching tree and looked and evaluated my game afterwards before Purging my Database to 'start afresh' and not to be slowed down by my small RAM.


Anyway the biggest leaks were:

1) Too wide default opening UTG and UTG+1
The word default is crucial as I believe it is really bad to have a starting hand chart. But now to open hands less than QJs+ and KQo+ + all pps I need to have a reason (specific table dynamics) as opposed to previously tightening up only after evaluating that the table dynamics require it.

This will have a very small impact on my 4 tabling game as I adjust after like 15 hands anyway, by when I 6+ table this should be a very +ev move that saves me moneyz.

2) Small default bet sizing.
I should especially cbet bigger against villains that I play non-exploitable style against as it makes them less likely to call and allows me to bloat the pot when I have a strong hand.

3) I don't play exploitably enough against not attentive villains.

What I said for decent enemies doesn't apply at all. I was cbetting way too big amounts against fish and value betting too low.
Now my default cbet size against villains that play their own cards is 50% when I miss and 90% when I hit as a general rule, adjusting to specific boards.

I also never adjusted my PF sizing properly at its something that is also easily exploitable.
I use a lot of minraising pre when there are nits and one fish, and I will make use of 6bb+ preflop opening in early position when there is one huge fish and some tags for example.

I play was playing a very exploitable style against villains that couldn't exploit it, but I will take it to whole new level now.

3) BR management.
Although I have been playing in games that I crush for 2 months now, I can't get to my regular limits due to my hypertilts.
I will newly play with 30BI+ BR at all levels to offset this.

I don't really care how fast I progress, there is a lot to learn on any limit when I don't autopilot.



Here is my couple hands at NL10 since I started watching the vids and started 4-6 tabling (which I find much harder than 9+ tabling in automode btw )
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/dcf69.KEKE.png


I will also post a blog every Sunday that shows all my brainless spews that make no fucking sense and I hate myself for doing them not only afterwards, but even DURING the actual hands BEFORE clicking the buttons.

I have no monetary or progress goals, I just want to play good poker, don't throw away stacks without at least understand why I do so, and above all have fun


For the lolz: (I won a KJ v JJ shove vs a guy that just sat down the hand before)
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]

PokerStars Game #34922072200: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2009/11/04 16:24:45 ET
Table Sniadeckia II 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: trghhjil ($10.15 in chips)
Seat 3: Ruper507 ($2.15 in chips)
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn ($20.95 in chips)
Seat 5: mr.mcsalty ($4.70 in chips)
Seat 6: IamUnwritten ($10.35 in chips)
Ruper507: posts small blind $0.05
DoC.LemOn said, "welcome to the table"
DoC.LemOn: posts big blind $0.10

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to DoC.LemOn
mr.mcsalty: folds
IamUnwritten: folds
DoC.LemOn said, "its rigged you no?"
trghhjil: calls $0.10
Ruper507: calls $0.05
DoC.LemOn: checks

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $0.30)

   
Ruper507: checks
DoC.LemOn: bets $0.30
trghhjil: raises $0.30 to $0.60
Ruper507: folds
DoC.LemOn: raises $1.40 to $2
trghhjil: raises $8.05 to $10.05 and is all-in
DoC.LemOn: calls $8.05

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $20.40)

   

River (Pot : $20.40)

   

Showdown
DoC.LemOn: shows (a straight flush, Eight to Queen)
trghhjil: shows (a flush, King high)
DoC.LemOn collected $19.40 from pot
DoC.LemOn said, "rigged"
trghhjil leaves the table

Summary
Total pot $20.40 | Rake $1
Board  
Seat 2: trghhjil (button) showed and lost with a flush, King high
Seat 3: Ruper507 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn (big blind) showed and won ($19.40) with a straight flush, Eight to Queen
Seat 5: mr.mcsalty folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: IamUnwritten folded before Flop (didnt bet)

Last time I wrote was on my birthdate I think, I was pretty drunk and wrote something about nothing. Because I knew that, what I wrote was very stupid and totally incomprehensible.

At this time I've made the choise that I shold get time to seriously focus on poker. I've been doing that for the last three weeks and it has been a very good result so long. I started with 350 Swedish kronor, which is like €35 or $50, and played around two weeks on "Svenska Spel" which is the swedish states client. The 350kr was 2600kr before I cashed out to switch client. I saved 1000kr to a trip home from Stockholm and to beer, and the rest (€150) I put in on Tellpoker which is a client on MicroGaming network.

There have they been since 22nd October and grown to €390. Sometimes I've been playing like a fucking retard but when I'm in focus and do what I should I'm playing very profitable on the limits NL€10 and NL$20. I will be posting hands to get comments on, and I will also try to be understandable in english.. Which is a language I'm not pretty good in.


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past month and few days at NL100

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/917bd.fml.jpg


I found and plugged a couple leaks with the help of my roommate's input in non-showdown pots. Just basically being a bit too loose in certain spots and too tight in others. So my redline is making a sick comeback.

Now to win those 80/20's and flips. holy fuck. Also if anyone has run below 4000bb's below expectation or more please post those graphs. I need something, anything to keep my head on straight fuck.

ps. FUCK YOU LEE.


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I withdrew half of my roll and I'm going to try to get myself to grind nl100

Every fuckin session I've played has been nothing but adversity for the last 2-3 weeks loll

I'm super depressed/constantly upset and obviously this is horrible for poker and for the rest of my life.. which really doesn't even seem to exist atm, as my life is all poker-fail all the time lately. meh.. Dunno why I can't leave this horrible funk and mindset.

Probably at one of the lower points of the last 15 months..... really disappointed in myself, which compounds with everything.

So my roll is going to be split between ftp and gutshot poker now, and I'm going to have a measly and pathetic $2500-3000 on each site.. hopefully I can still win at nl100.




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Not me. The other guy. I played him all 1.4k hands.

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8930/hu50nl.jpg


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Am finally getting settled in out here in San Diego. Me and my friend Kris moved out here about a week ago and finally got my computer desk/bed/chairs in my pod today and unpacked most of that stuff. Our place we are renting out here is pretty sick, the complex has pool/jacuzzi/workout room/tanning place/bunch of other random stuff and a bunch of good looking women which can't ever be a bad thing.

Some pics

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/a24f5.Apartment1.jpg

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/2e319.apartment2.jpg


Theres a few other poker players that I have been hanging out with here that either live her/renting including fantasticcow, petteytheft, bw07507, zachvac, abstractpb.

Me, my roomate, cow and bw went out a few nights down in PB and for Halloween in downtown and it was pretty amazing. I dressed up in my chippendale costume and it was def a super ++++ev costume to have it. The women loved it!



http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/e61dd.halloween1.jpg


On the poker front, I have not really been focused on poker at all lately. Had a few bad days that cost me alot of money but meh, will have to grind it back eventually. Right now just trying to enjoy all there is to offer out here and hopefully find myself a wife in the process and see all the fun places in california. Time for bed, thanks for reading


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Yeppppppppp Want some more ftp moniess.


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http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/38563.gg.gif


why is 100nl so much different?


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I had some earlier goals. Scratch that. I'm just going to play good poker, cash out when I feel like, move up how I want I'm not pressed for money

no goals, no monetary targets. just play good poker and lots of it. thats my modus operandi and how i work best.


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i lost 4 buyins at 10nl cuz im a cock sucker


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I give you $500 FTP, you give me $500PS... I will send first to known members only.
PM me if you can help me out, Thanks.


EDIT: Done, Thanks Maynard.


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and i'll give it back to you on PS with of course the 0.75$ moneybookers fee







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